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Mr. Tuttle. They will be attracted by the vinegar. They will 

 collect where there are sour ajjples. The first I noticed it was 

 by their getting into a large cask of vinegar holding some eight 

 or ten barrels which I had standing out of doors. I thought it 

 very good use to make of it as it was the best trap I could get 

 for the codling moth. 



Mr. Dartt. Mr. Piesident, I wish to say that I have good 

 reason to believe that this injury to the trees that has been spoken 

 of is done during the latter part of the winter by the effects of 

 the sun, I will not take time to give you my reasons. I have 

 had experience with the' plum trees in the hen yard. There may 

 be hens that have kept everything from growing under the trees, 

 while nearly every plum was stung so that it was good for nothing; 

 but I am inclined to think that theory is a humbug. It has proved 

 so with me and I think that this new branch of horticulture that 

 has been brought out to-night is the most profitable branch; and 

 all will admit that it is the most profitable of any that we have 

 had in our society and that there is more money in raising '^ hen" 

 fruit than any other kind of fruit that we can raise. (Laughter,) 



Prof. Henry. Mr. President, I do not want to see members 

 leave until the fog is cleared up on one point. In regard to 

 the codling moth, I want to say this: You can carry your 

 mind back to the time when the tree is in blossom and at 

 the time when the blossoms fall from the petals; at that time, 

 during a couple of days the codling moth is around depositing 

 her eggs. She deposits her egg near the calix end of the blow, 

 and if left there twenty-four hours, it hatches into a worm, i^Tow, 

 having them located in that place, the question is, how can we 

 manage to kill that little fellow *? The best thing to do it is to 

 use some of the arsenical preparations. If you have insects 

 destroying the leaves, you want to get the arsenic upon the leaves 

 where it will be eaten. You will not kill the vermin until the 

 arsenic is eaten, and if the rain washes it off, then you must apply 

 it again. And so with the destruction of the young larvae upon 

 the apple buds; you can ai)ply the arsenical preparation by 

 means of a force pump, and leave it on the bud of the apple until 

 the worm has eaten some of it. You do not hurt the female, I 

 don't know that she eats anything. But if you will follow out 

 this idea you cannot help making your work effectual. But you 

 must remember that the rain will wash off the arsenic and then 

 it needs to be re-applied. 



One other point. In regard to the splitting of the oak tree, 



